Hame-tug



(No Model.)

S. B. DAVIS.

HAMB TUG.

No. 356,102. Patented Jan. 18, 1887.

wikmoaeo ."i" f" I w v ,UNITED STATES SYLVESIIER BYRON DAVIS, OF EUREKA, CALIFORNIA.

HAME

-TUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,102, dated January 18, 1887.

Application filed May 22, 1886. Serial No. 202.985.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SYLvEsrER BYRON DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eureka, in the county of Humboldt and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iame-Tugs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to hame-tugs, and has for its object the construction of a metallic tug to which a trace may be readily attached and adjusted with facility and dispatch.

The invention will behereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved tug attached to a wooden hame. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the reverse side of atug of the form shown'in Fig. 8. Fig. 3 isa cross-section; Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, perspectives of modified forms of the tug; and Fig. 8 is a top view of the tug shown in Fig. 2.

Reference being had to the drawings, and the letters marked thereon, A represents an ordinary wooden hame.

B is the tug, which consists of a metallic frame having grooves or ways a formed on the inside of its opposite edges,to receive one end of a trace or tug, O, and is provided with a series of slots, b, to receivea key, c,which passes through the tug and an eye formed in one end of the trace.

The key may be made, as shown, with a head, (I, and a recess, 0, on one side, which forms a projectiomf, at the lower end of the key, which, when inserted in the slot b, locks itself and prevents displacement. The key may, however, be niade in the form of ordinary spring-keys used for analogous purposes.

The tug may be made in various ways-- such as forging into the form shown in Figs. 2 and 8, in which instance steel is used, and at the rear end a loop, 9, is formed for the purpose of connecting the saddle-girth or bellyband, according to the style of harness used, and the two parts are riveted together at h. A jaw, 1 engages with the flattened head hot a pin, Z, which is swiveled to the hame by its (No model.)

connection m, and is secured by riveting in the usual manner, the head a preventing the pin from being withdrawn from the metal strap m, to which it is secured. By forming thejaw t on the goose-neck of the tug B and. connecting it with the swiveled pin Z the tug yields readily to any movement of the animal and accommodates itself to any unevenness or strains on the harness. v

Instead of forging, the tug may be cast of malleable iron or other metal; or it may be made of sheet metal in the forms shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, and the loop 9 riveted thereto, as shown in said Fig. 7.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a tug adapte for connection withthe collar shown in my Patent No. 331,871, December 8, 1885.

In Fig.- 5, D represents a malleable-iron casting, with a jaw, p, formed on it for connection with the swiveled pin Z, the casting being attached to the tug by rivets.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a flexible connection, E, made of leather, which is secured to the tug B and to an eyepiece, q, for attachment to a staple in a hame. This flexible connection, in a measure, supplies the place of the joint formed by the jaw t and the flattened head It on the pin Z.

By my invention a trace or tug requires no other puncturing than the eye or loop formed in one end for the reception of the key 0, which passes through the hame-tug and locks in the slots 1) of saidtug, and the trace may be readily adjusted to any required length Within the range of the hame-tug by simply shifting the key from one to any other slot in the metallic frame.

If desired, the hame-tug may be covered with leather, or it may be plated and otherwise ornamented. It may be made open on both of its sides, or it may have one side closed. For light harness the tug may be stamped from sheet metal, and'thus be made to correspond in weight with the style of harness used.

In such harness, in which no back and belly bands are required, the loop gmay be omitted.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is l. A hame-tug consisting of a metallic frame having grooves or ways formed on the inside of its opposite edges and provided with transverse slots through said edges, in combination with a tug having an eye or loop formed therein and a key 'for securing said tug to the frame,

substantially as described.

2. Ahame-tug providedwith ajaw, in combina'tion with a swiveled pin connected to the hame in the longitudinal plane of the tug and provided with a head to engage with said jaw,

whereby the tug is adapted to rotate on its longitudinal axis, substantially as described.

3. Ahame-tug consisting of a metallic frame having transverse slots through its edges, grooves to receivea trace or tug, and provided with a loop at its rear end for attaching the back and belly bands, in combination with SYLVESTER BYRON DAVIS.

Witnesses:

NICHOLAS BUsoHWAH, SAMUEL KERR. 

